Hi,

I have added an attribute to a button in page load as,
            this.btnHome.Attributes.Add("onclick","if(!confirm ('Are you sure to delete this Event?')) return false;");

and this shows the message box properly with 2 options "Ok" and "Cancel". so i added a condition inside the button's click event as,

if(!confirm('Are you sure to delete this Event?'))
   {

   }
else
   {

   }
but this shows 2 syntax errors as,
(1) The name confirn doesnot exist in the class or namespace ....
(2) Too many characters in the character literal.

how can i return whether user pressed "Ok" or "Cancel"??

nalla

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Are you trying to pass client side information (the result of 'confirm()') to the server? You can't do that. Not directly at least.

You can use the confirm to simply prevent 'btnHome' from firing a postback by doing this:

  this.btnHome.Attributes.Add("onclick","return confirm('Are you sure to delete this Event?');");

A 'Cancel' click in the confirm will return false and stop the button from posting the form.


If you want to actually bring back the result of the confirm to the server (and thus always do a postback) you'll have to assign the result to a hidden form element that carries the value to the server.

-Peter

Hi Peter,

   What I want to do is Pop us a message box ("'Are you sure to delete this Event?" Ok/Cancel), when user pressed the Delete button and according to the option user selects, (Ok or cancel) delete the record or just exit from the Button press event.

   That means delete the record if user pressed "Ok" or do not delete the record if user pressed "Cancel"

   So how can I do this? How can I detect whether user pressed "Ok" or "cancel" of the message box?

nalla

one way to do this is store the value returned from the confirm in a hidden type and access it at server side to validate the reply.

dkautilya
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You have a standard button server control. This button is rendered in the HTML as a standard form submit button.

You add a value to the 'onclick' CLIENT-side attribute:

this.btnHome.Attributes.Add("onclick","return confirm('Are you sure to delete this Event?');");

When the user clicks the button, this CLIENT-side onclick handler executes and shows the user a CLIENT-side confirmation prompt. One of two things happens:

1. User clicks 'OK'. The confirm() method returns 'true'.

2. User clicks 'Cancel'. The confirm() method return 'false'.

This value (true/false) is being returned to the CLIENT-side event handler of the button click. Now, the onclick handler of the button on the CLIENT-side will stop if it receives 'false'. Only if it receives 'true' will it continue.

Because this button is a form submit button, the form will only submit if the handler is allowed to continue executing. By returning 'false' from the confirm() method, we are stopping execution of the handler and thus stopping the form submit.

Therefore, if the form is never submitted the page never enters a postback based on that button click. So the SERVER-side onclick handler for the button server control will not fire. Thus, you do not need any test on the SERVER-side to determine if the user pressed 'Cancel' because you stopped it at the CLIENT-side.

-Peter

Hi,

Now I understand.:) Thank you peter.

nalla